Installing on OS X Leopard - Build Error

[Lenore Horner]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 16:48 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:

> On Aug 18, 2009, at 15:34, Lenore Horner wrote:
>
>> On Aug 18, 2009, at 15:02 , Lenore Horner wrote:
>>
>>> On Aug 18, 2009, at 14:31 , Christopher Stamper wrote:
>>>
>>>> The version of gnutls you have installed is old; I've got 2.8.3.  
>>>> I read somewhere that the whole libgnutls-config thing got  
>>>> depriciated since then, so that could explain why I don't have it.
>>>
>>> Hmm.  Macports would update me only to 2.8.2.  Maybe I don't want  
>>> to do that!  Is your gnutls from outside MacPorts?  Although if it  
>>> were, MP should have installed its own for gwenhywvar.
>
> MacPorts gnutls was updated to 2.8.3 on August 14. To get it, if you  
> want it, "sudo port sync" and then "sudo port upgrade gnutls".
>
>
>> Possibly the following is relevant for some package maintainer to  
>> implement (AFAIK gnucash is maintainerless)
>
> [snip]
>
>> The package's ./configure script is trying to invoke libgnutls- 
>> config and/or libgnutls-extra-config to search for the gnutls  
>> library. Newer version of gnutls do not ship these scripts anymore.  
>> Please use another way to search for the gnutls library, e.g. pkg- 
>> config or AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS or AC_CHECK_FUNCS.
>
> [snip]
>
>> Gwenhywfar seems to be up to 3.10, but Macports is only up to 3.7.   
>> This is also no maintainer, so hopefully one of the maintainer  
>> geniuses can upgrade this easily.
>
> I agree that pkg-config should be used instead. According to the  
> Gwenhywfar ChangeLog, this was fixed in verison 3.8.2. So all we  
> should need to do is update the port.
>
>
> We already have a ticket covering this bug:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/ticket/20680

So is the way out of this to add to that ticket the request to  
upgrade?  It's no maintainer, so I don't know what's the most  
effective way to request an upgrade.

Lenore